Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
Viterra, a company specialising in the large-scale management of housing, is reported to cut one third of its work-force. Viterra was recently sold by energy-giant E.ON to British hedge fund Terra Firma. Terra firma wants to focus Viterra's business and will close the departments for development and data processing. The way job losses will be managed was not disclosed.
Eurofound (2005), Viterra, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61750, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61750.